A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 58 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Ms. Mao Hengfeng (subject of previously transmitted communications, see above). On 15 May 2007 at approximately 6 a.m., she was transferred from the police detention centre to prison. She was given inadequate clothing which left her virtually naked. When she protested this treatment, she was beaten by police officers and placed in solitary confinement upon her arrival at the prison. Ms. Mao Hengfeng embarked upon a hunger strike as a gesture of protest against her situation. She was subsequently subjected to forced feeding on three occasions by prison guards who tied her hands and forced a tube down her throat. She was placed under constant surveillance by inmates that had been assigned the task by prison guards. They were also ordered to harass and verbally abuse her. Ms. Mao Hengfeng is currently in poor health, suffering from high blood pressure and arthritis. These conditions are further aggravated by her inadequate living conditions. She has neither been provided with a chair, nor a bed. She has no choice but to lie on the floor, often in cold and damp conditions. Ms. Mao Hengfeng was visited by her husband on 28 June 2007. At this time her husband reported her ill-treatment and requested that the prison officials grant her lawyers access to visit her in order to prepare for her upcoming appeal. Zheng Enchong, a human rights lawyer (subject of a previously transmitted communication, A/HRC/4/37/Add.1, para. 151), and his wife Ms. Jiang Meili, Shanghai. On 24 July 2007 at 42. 12/07/07 JUA HOUS; HRD; TOR; VAW 43. 27/07/07 JUA HOUS; HRD; TOR Government response By letter dated 18/12/07, the Government informed that the allegations in the letter that “on 24 July 2007 at approximately 7.30 a.m., Mr. Zheng Enchong went to the Shanghai Municipal